Latest Malaria stories on ABC Online

Mosquitoes carry malaria, dengue and yellow fever, which together are responsible for several million deaths and hundreds of millions of infections a year. Fortunately for Australians, few deaths happen in this country, but this year cases of serious disease-carrying mosquitoes are up - way ...

Australian military veterans are vowing to redouble their effort to win a battle against the Defence Force over a controversial anti malaria drug. Mefloquine, also known as Lariam, was a frontline drug against the tropical disease in the 1980s, before its side-effects became known. But those ...

Billions of dollars and decades of research have been invested into finding the magic silver bullet that will eliminate one of the globe's biggest killers - malaria. More than a billion people are at high risk of getting the tropical disease and almost half a million people died of it last year. But ...